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Founding documents
We are getting ready to sell our church building and have had people doing some clean out projects. I am thankful some folks going through some old files recognized some buried treasure. In the old boxes were the first Constitution and ByLaws of our church and this announcement calling for the first official meeting of the church to set up…
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Thoughts on the political process
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” —Groucho Marx “The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then get…
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MLK — Lukewarm acceptance vs. outright rejection
I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux…
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Martin Luther King, Jr. the Prophet
“Unfortunately, King is known more today as a poetic patron saint of racial harmony than a provocative prophet of social justice, someone who by the end of his life had managed to get on just about everyone’s last nerve.” (Edward Gilbreath, Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Epic Challenge to the Church)
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Nelson Mandela
A brief overview of the life of Mandela.
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Happy Reformation Day
While Wesley is not a “reformer,” he is a descendant of the Reformation, so I love to quote him:
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Let us remember this day
50 years ago today was Martin Luther King, Jr.’s amazing “I Have a Dream” speech. This article documents how the famous phrase wasn’t even in the original draft. This is a day ALL Americans should commemorate. I want Dr. King’s vision in my own life. I also want his spirit. The article gives this account: When King arrived at the…
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Independence
The week is slipping by and with my wife still out of town, I’ve had a hard time remembering what day of the week I’m on! July 3, so let’s feature one great quote from a writer of the Revolution, Thomas Paine. People just don’t talk this way anymore: “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier…
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Gettysburg — Why They Fought
Another excellent piece by David Brooks in The New York Times today. It is a reflection on the difference in soldiers from the Civil War to today. The language, the letters, the thoughts, are so completely different. We look so small today in comparison. In our current era, as the saying goes, we take that which is lower to be…
Category: History
